Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
Aldous Huxley
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley
"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."
Aldous Huxley
"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
Aldous Huxley
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
Aldous Huxley
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
Aldous Huxley
"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley
"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Aldous Huxley
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
Aldous Huxley
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
Aldous Huxley
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Aldous Huxley
"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."
Aldous Huxley
"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."
Aldous Huxley
"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
Aldous Huxley
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
Aldous Huxley
"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
Aldous Huxley
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
Aldous Huxley
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